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BASRA, IRAQ - OCTOBER 18: People gather around a Land Rover as it arrives at the village Al Houta on October 18 2008 near Basra, Iraq. The trip by the 51 Sqn Royal Air Force Regiment Force Protection Wing was part of a 'key leader engagement' (KLE) visit to the village close to the Basra Airbase to recruit local labour and engage with the village shiek. Visits of this type are seen as key in efforts to continue winning the support of the local Iraqi population. Although improved security in the region has brought some benefits such as improved trade and commerce, much of the infrastructure remains in a poor state of repair. Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown has indicated that the number of UK troops could be scaled down - especially as the security situation in the south of the country continues to improve.
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Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) speaks during a campaign rally in the rain at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia, September 27, 2008.
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A puppy stands on a truck carrying people to be evacuated from the area in preparation for the approach of Hurricane Gustav in Batabano, on the southern coast of Cuba, August 30, 2008. Powerful Hurricane Gustav roared toward western Cuba on Saturday with 125 mph (205 kph) winds on its way to the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico after a deadly pass through the Caribbean.
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BANGKOK, THAILAND - AUGUST 30: A member of Anti-government People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) stands behind barbed wire outside Government on August 30, 2008, in Bangkok, Thailand. The protesters want to unseat the seven-month old coalition government lead by Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej.
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Lee Seong-tae, governor of the Bank of Korea, gestures during a press conference to announces the benchmark call rate at its headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 9, 2009. The Bank of Korea lowered the benchmark seven-day repurchase rate to 2.5 percent from a record low 3 percent at a regular policy meeting Friday.
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Toronto Maple Leafs' Mikhail Grabovski gestures to fans as he leaves the game after being given a game misconduct during the third period of their NHL hockey game against the Montreal Canadiens in Montreal, January 8, 2009.
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Twenty-year-old female tour guides dressed in traditional kimonos walk after attending a purification ceremony with a Shinto priest at Tokyo's Meiji Shrine to celebrate Japan's Coming of Age Day on January 9, 2009. Since tour guides will be busy working on Japan's national holiday Coming-of-Age Day on January 12, the company had a ceremony for them ahead of time. Young people turning 20 are officially recognised as adults in Japan.
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An Israeli attack helicopter fires flares as seen from the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009. Lebanese militants fired at least three rockets into northern Israel early Thursday, ripping through a crowded nursing home and threatening to open a new front for the Jewish state as it pushed forward with a bloody offensive in the Gaza Strip that has killed nearly 700 people.
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Mount Everest, the highest peak in the world, with an altitude of 8,848 meters (29,028 feet), is seen in this aerial view taken from a passenger aircraft flying over Nepal at a height of 9,144 meters (30,000 feet), November 9, 2008. Everest is part of the Himalayan mountain range along the border of Nepal and Tibet. In background is the Tibetan Plateau. Picture taken November 9, 2008.
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A Tibetan man ploughs a field near Gyabon Hamlet located near the base camp of Mount Everest, also known as Qomolangma, in the Tibet Autonomous Region May 9, 2008. An envoy to the Dalai Lama said on Thursday Chinese negotiators had shown a willingness to engage with the Tibetan side during recent talks, despite major differences on important issues.
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The summit of the world's highest mountain Mount Everest, also known as Qomolangma, is covered in cloud as climbers from the Olympic torch relay team reach the top in the Tibet Autonomous Region May 8, 2008. Heavy snowfall during the past week had hampered efforts for the Olympic torch's ascent, but the team of 31 Chinese climbers, 22 of them ethnic Tibetans, reached Everest's summit with the Olympic flame this morning.
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Israel's director-general of the Water Authority and Minister of National Infrastructure Binyamin Ben-Eliezer (L) and Jordan's Minister of Water and Irrigation Raed Abu Soud are interviewed by TV stations after the opening session of The Ministerial Conference on Water at the King Hussein Convention Centre at the Dead Sea Shore near Amman December 22, 2008.
Israeli director-general of the Water Authority and Minister of National Infrastructure Binyamin Ben-Eliezer (R) shakes hands with Jordanian Minister of Water and Irrigation Raed Abu Soud after the opening session of The Ministerial Conference on Water at the King Hussein Convention Centre at the Dead Sea Shore near Amman December 22,2008.
Israeli director-general of the Water Authority and Minister of National Infrastructure Binyamin Ben-Eliezer (L) and Jordanian Minister of Water and Irrigation Raed Abu Soud are interviewed by TV stations after the opening session of The Ministerial Conference on Water at the King Hussein Convention Centre at the Dead Sea Shore near Amman December 22, 2008.
Israeli director-general of the Water Authority and Minister of National Infrastructure Binyamin Ben-Eliezer (L) and Jordanian Minister of Water and Irrigation Raed Abu Soud are interviewed by TV stations after the opening session of The Ministerial Conference on Water at the King Hussein Convention Centre at the Dead Sea Shore near Amman December 22,2008.
Israeli Infrastructure Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, left, and Palestinian Authority Energy Minister Omar Kittaneh, right, talk during the Cyprus-hosted Euro-Mediterranean Energy Ministerial Conference, Limassol, Cyprus, Monday, Dec. 17, 2007. Israeli and Palestinian energy officials said that joint projects harnessing limitless solar power that are unencumbered by the complex politics of the Mideast conflict could help smooth the road to peace.
Israeli Cabinet Minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer talks during a press conference with Egyptian Minister of Petroleum Sameh Fahmy, right, in Cairo, in this June 30, 2005 file photo. Ben-Eliezer has postponed a planned visit to Egypt in light of allegations that an army unit under his command killed unarmed Egyptian prisoners captured during the 1967 Middle East War, an aide said Monday, March 5, 2007.
An Israeli Greenpeace activist holds a banner next to a pile of coal with legs sticking out, implying that the head of Israel's Minister of Infrastructure Binyamin Ben-Eliezer is buried in the pile, during a protest against a proposed plan to build another coal power station in the southern city of Ashkelon, outside the Ministry of Infrastructure in Jerusalem, Monday, May 19, 2008. Hebrew on sign reads "Fuad, get your head out of coal" referring to Ben-Eliezer.
Iran's deputy army chief Gen. Mohammad Reza Ashtiani, speaks during a news conference in Tehran on Tuesday, April, 15, 2008. Iran will eliminate Israel if the Jewish state attacks the Persian Islamic nation, Iran's deputy army chief warned Tuesday in the latest Iranian contribution to the verbal exchanges between the two foes. The remarks by Gen. Mohammad Reza Ashtiani were carried by the official IRNA news agency and followed a similar comment by Israel's Infrastructure Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, who last week warned Iran that any attack on Israel would result in the "destruction of the Iranian nation."
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, right, speaks with Minister of National Infastructure, Binyamin Ben-Eliezer during a special session marking the 11th anniversary of the assassination of the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin at the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem, Thursday Nov. 2, 2006. Rabin was killed by a Jewish extremist after a peace rally in Tel Aviv in 1995. (AP Photos/Jim Hollander, Pool)
(FILES) -- File picture dated 05 November 2002 shows former Israeli Defense Minister and Labor party leader, Binyamin Ben-Eliezer speaking during a press conference at the party headquarters in Tel Aviv. Ben-Eliezer, now infrastructure minister, said Israel should "liquidate" Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah "at the first opportunity." He also told army radio 30 September 2006 that he did not rule out a resumption of hostilities in south Lebanon after the Israeli pullout. His comments came as Lebanon said it had been told that Israel planned to complete its pullout from the south tomorrow, following its devastating 34-day conflict with the Shiite militants of Hezbollah in July and August. AFP PHOTO/Sven NACKSTRAND (Photo credit should read SVEN NACKSTRAND/AFP/Getty Images)
